The GOLTZBORG★GLOBAL★CORPORATION of The Commonwealth Stock eXchange-COMSTOX is a massive, efficient nation, ruled by Leon Musk III The Prophet of Profit with an even hand, and renowned for its barren, inhospitable landscape, otherworldly petting zoo, and stringent health and safety legislation. The hard-working, devout population of 3.464 billion Commonwealth Stock eXchange-COMSTOXians are highly moralistic and fiercely conservative, in the sense that they tend to believe most things should be outlawed. People who have good jobs and work quietly at them are lauded; others are viewed with suspicion.

The medium-sized government juggles the competing demands of Defense, Education, and Law & Order. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of WALL $TREET CITY. The average income tax rate is 23.9%.

The thriving Commonwealth Stock eXchange-COMSTOXian economy, worth 246 trillion COM$TOX CREDIT$s a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Basket Weaving industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Information Technology. Average income is 71,061 COM$TOX CREDIT$s, and evenly distributed, with the richest citizens earning only 3.8 times as much as the poorest.

It is mandatory to learn evolution in schools, creating dance remixes is the newest form of conspicuous consumption, politicians sweat as journalists scour internet archives for any mention of them, and pareidolic SETI scientists swear there's a message from aliens hidden within pi. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. The Commonwealth Stock eXchange-COMSTOX's national animal is the Bull and Bear, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Worldwide Church of Prophet of Profit.

The Commonwealth Stock eXchange-COMSTOX is ranked 184,650^th in the world and 18^th in The IMPERIUM for Most Cultured, scoring 64 on the Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale.